Famous people died in October - page 9

Will Keith Kellogg

Will Keith Kellogg

Will Keith Kellogg was an American industrialist best known as the founder of the Kellogg Company

AmericanApril 7, 1860169 views

Joseph Pulitzer

Joseph Pulitzer was one of the most prominent US journalists and publisher of his times

HungarianApril 10, 1847144 views

Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel was an African American actress, singer and radio performer

AmericanJune 10, 1895143 views

Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Bannekar was an African American scientist and a strong advocate of racial equality

James S. Sherman

James S Sherman was an American politician who served as the 27th Vice President of United States

AmericanOctober 24, 1855134 views

Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor

Maximilian was the Holy Roman Emperor who served as the King of Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia

HungarianJuly 31, 1527108 views

Gerty Cori

Gerty Theresa Cori was a Nobel Prize winning biochemist who discovered the catalytic conversion of glycogen

AmericanAugust 15, 1896319 views

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Levi Strauss was a renowned French anthropologist of the twentieth century who pioneered the theory of structuralism

FrenchNovember 28, 1908146 views

Katharine Burr Blodgett

Katherine Burr Blodgett was a famous American scientist who invented the ‘invisible glass’ and was the first woman recipient of doctoral degree

AmericanJanuary 10, 1898157 views

William Tyndale

William Tyndale was an English scholar and theologian who is most celebrated for his work of translating the Bible in English

British149489 views